[Nigredo]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Richard Drax did not approve.

Quite a few not very well off people in his constituency in Weymouth and Portland. Doubtless they'd rather have tax cuts, or something.

[Nigredo]

[mattomac]

I’ve noticed he isn’t actually that bright is he?

Bit like Raab, there is nothing much in the head is there.

[Andy McDandy]

They know they're right because everyone around them tells them they're right. Those people depend entirely on keeping their minister happy. Hence telling them they're right all the time.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Why do I keep seeing Sunak's deputy, the not exactly persuasive Simon Clarke?

Taking on public sector unions ought be something a Tory Chancellor relishes. Does Rishi only appear when he's handing out free money?

[Youngian]

I’ve noticed he isn’t actually that bright is he?

Having brushed up with the world of tech financier dudes from Silicon Valley, not a lot goes on outside their wheelhouse. Elon Musk’s birdbrained political pronouncements make Tim Martin look like Peter Hennessy.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

They know they're right because everyone around them tells them they're right. Those people depend entirely on keeping their minister happy. Hence telling them they're right all the time.

Depends on the minister...

[mattomac]

Why do I keep seeing Sunak's deputy, the not exactly persuasive Simon Clarke?

Taking on public sector unions ought be something a Tory Chancellor relishes. Does Rishi only appear when he's handing out free money?

Sunak is only popular when he isn’t in the news, same goes for all of them really. Maybe that’s what 500k spent on that image focus group told him. I just looked at the polling and the peaks and troughs.

He is the first chancellor most people could probably walk past in the street and I don’t think that’s a positive considering the state of the country.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The funny thing is that before, a fair bit of effort was being put into "Rishi" as a brand. Nobody ever did that with Philip Hammond. Why did they do it with Rishi, then apparently change their mind?

[Nigredo]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Surprised to see the Lesser Spotted Rishi at all. On that evidence, he'll disappear again.

[Crabcakes]

The funny thing is that before, a fair bit of effort was being put into "Rishi" as a brand. Nobody ever did that with Philip Hammond. Why did they do it with Rishi, then apparently change their mind?

Probably because that’s what he asked for. He likes the idea of signing stuff and people thinking “ooh, that makes it more prestige!”. Which entirely matches the world he comes from where you flaunt your absurdly priced brand name products to show your wealth.

And as with many of these brands, beneath that is something that is at best remarkably ordinary.

[Samanfur]

[Andy McDandy]

Interesting. Suggests Johnson is going to just bullshit and gaslight and tell everyone things are just fine.

[Spoonman]

I don't think Sunak could have timed that resignation better - gives a good reason for going and leaves before there's a very good chance the economy goes tits up quite soon while remembered as the Covid Chancellor. Keeps his powder dry for any potential Tory leadership challenge in the future, only big fly in the ointment being his wife's non-dom status which client journalists managed to largely bury into the ground from being a big problem.

[Boiler]

TBQH I can see Sunak leaving these shores for the US where he can give big tech/big pharma an insight into opportunities in the UK.

[Crabcakes]

I’d say the other big fly in the ointment is that as soon as he gets questioned he exposes that he’s completely shit. I’m not sure he’d get through a leadership campaign, let alone an election

[Bones McCoy]

Another "Classic Sunak" assistance scheme.

£400 energy payment: Fears landlords to keep renters' rebate

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62375576

[AOB]

Another "Classic Sunak" assistance scheme.

£400 energy payment: Fears landlords to keep renters' rebate

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62375576

In the 90s me and a mate shared a flat and the electricity was included in the rent but there was a gas meter which we had to top up with pound coins (remarkable this cash method was still in use as recent as 1997). This meant that the gas bill was in the landlord's name and therefore we never saw it, but the gas was obviously paid for directly by us. Under that method he would've got the £400 and it would've been complicated working out how much of it he would've owed us. There are going to be lots of landlords either unscrupulously keeping this £400 or just being deliberately slow in passing it on unfortunately.

I've just calculated the standing charge for my electricity now is 20% more per year than the TV licence. That's before you get to the electricity. Energy and fuel suppliers say the prices are going up because the price they pay to buy it has gone up, yet they still announce profits of hundreds of millions or even billions in the recent case of Shell. Something isn't adding up. Nationalise the whole lot and make it nonprofit making.